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A website created to help attract more retirees to Elizabeth City is up and running, touting the city as a place to enjoy architecture, arts, boating, continuing education, dining, healthcare, warm weather and quality-of-life experiences.

When it was built with Rosenwald funding on what was then the campus of the Elizabeth City Colored Normal School in 1921, the “practice school” was the place where African-American college students learned the craft of teaching.

The law firm representing local ophthalmologist Dr. Jitendra Swarup on Friday defended Swarup’s decision to pay a $2.9 million settlement to resolve allegations he took kickbacks from medical suppliers.

An aging heating system at Northside Elementary School, pushed to its limits during the unusually cold weather last month, needs to be replaced, the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools maintenance chief said last week.

Frankie Floyd, director of facilities and maintenance for ECPPS, told…